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Does anyone else think a shipping charge for a $6 bee brush should be $14.65? :s
Feeling "ripped off"
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USPS will ship it 2 day delivery priority mail for $5.80 and the box is free from USPS
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If you don't check the shipping costs before you finalize your purchase you don't really have too much ground to complain afterwards.
Shipping packages can be a complex process. Even after the shipper pays for the box, any dunnage* used, and the carrier fees, there are issues in getting those packages into a carrier's hands. Some carriers charge a fee to make pickups at a shipper's door.
*dunnage is used inside the package to protect the contents. (air pillows, bubble wrap, brown paper, styrofoam, etc)
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Shipping packages can be a complex process. Even after the shipper pays for the box, any dunnage* used, and the carrier fees, there are issues in getting those packages into a carrier's hands. Some carriers charge a fee to make pickups at a shipper's door.
*dunnage is used inside the package to protect the contents. (air pillows, bubble wrap, brown paper, styrofoam, etc)
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cost = item price plus shipping and handling. shipping more than the item is common today.
That's one reason why I wait to order more than one or two low prices items. Mann Lake loves me and many others. Buy $100 worth and get free shipping. Luckily I have a Walter Kelly Dealer about 30 min from me where I can pick up the small things if and when I need em. Sorry man.
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Never thought I'd be recommending Betterbee again but they have reasonable shipping options. Their bee brush can ship for as little as $2.86. (USPS First-Class Mail -Parcel.)
Whoever charged you 14.65 made a nice profit off of you. Time to shop around for the future.
Wayne
Whoever charged you 14.65 made a nice profit off of you. Time to shop around for the future.
Wayne
Depends how it was shipped. If you happened to check off the 'next day' box on the shipping form, and got it for 14.65, you got a bargain. If it was 30 day slowboat, then it was spendy. And there are lots of other options in between.
Shipping cheap stuff is big business these days. Shipping companies are a bigger industry than manufacturing the goods today, at least in North America. That $6 bee brush probably cost the vendor on the order of 3 bucks when they broke it out of the container that came from China. The real input to the North American economy of that brush, is the shipping charges to first get it from the docks to the vendor (absorbed in the 3 dollar markup), and then from the vendor to the customer, billed as an added extra. Between the docks, and the final customer, it's probably been handled by 8 or 9 different folks along the way, most making a decent wage in the process.
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I'm trying to work up an order today. I don't need $100 bucks worth of stuff right now, but for the free shipping that Mann has it's hard to beat, and I know I'll use the extra stuff in time. I'll check betterbee out. I've not used them before.
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I've said it too many times-bee supply companies shipping charges are a huge rip off.
That being said, why did you not see what the thing was going to cost?????
That being said, why did you not see what the thing was going to cost?????
Supposing you were shipping a 10,000 dollar diamond ring to your girlfriend or wife. Would 14.65 be exorbitant? It is not the price of the item that determines the cost of shipping if the weight size and distance were similar.
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The 14 dollars could be absorbent. The 65 cents could not.
Bur what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
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Bur what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
Wayne
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